On the subject of ensuring compliance with mental health treatment:
Many if not most of today's adults with a debilitating mental illness, be it organic or drug-induced, are savvy enough to apply for and receive gov't aid such as SSI, food stamps, and other benefits.
Medicine has advanced to the point that there are time released meds which if taken obviate the need for daily dosing, which the mentally ill eschew.
OK, now for the plan: require as a condition precedent that a mentally ill claimant physically go to a treatment center and be observed to take their monthly pills or med injections before getting the money: once they've been observed to comply with prescribed meds, release the money / benefits.
As it stands now the two are not linked: I see no good reason why they should not be.
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